Yet another big investment deal has gone down in the cryptocurrency community. It was announced on Wednesday that bitcoin start-up Chain has closed a $9.5 million investment led by Khosla Ventures, and included Pantera Capital, Barry Silbert, RRE Ventures, SV Angel, and Thrive Capital. This effectively brings the total amount raised by the company to $13.7 million. As part of the investment, Chain has added Keith Rabois as a board member, a former PayPal executive. Rabois, who is part of Khosla, had previously worked for both Square and LinkedIn. The company, which specializes in digital....

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Block-chain API provider Chain has raised new investment of $9.5m, bringing its total funding so far to $13.7m. The company, which helps developers build bitcoin apps by providing fast access to the block chain, received the funding from a number of investors including Kevin Ryan, Barry Silbert, Scott Banister, Homebrew, 500 Startups and Pantera Capital. Silbert, who is the founder of Bitcoin Opportunity Corp, said: "Behind the scenes and without a lot of fanfare or public awareness, Chain has built the definitive bitcoin developer platform. I'm thrilled to back the Chain team alongside a....

Chain.com is providing the best experience for developers, and venture capitalists are taking notice. Chain just raised 9.5 million dollars in a new round of funding led by Khosla Ventures, RRE Ventures, Thrive Capital, and SV Angel. Chain may only be a few months old, but it grew out of another company that had previous funding. Before, there were two groups working on making a bitcoin programming interface for developers. One of the groups was in San Francisco and the other one in Los Angeles, but when they found each other… Chain formed. Chain has been enabling programmers to build....

Blockchain technology startup Chain has raised $30 million in new venture funding, drawing funds from financial services companies including Capital One, Fiserv and Visa. French telecom giant Orange SA contributed to the round, months after disclosing that it was looking to invest in bitcoin startups, as did Nasdaq, which has been working with Chain, and Citi Ventures. RRE Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital and SV Angel - existing investors of the firm - also took part, as well as former Bank of America CEO David Coulter, X Prize Foundation CEO Peter Diamandis and MongoDB co-founder....

Silicon valley based Bitcoin startup 21 Inc. recently admitted to have raised a whopping $116 million in venture funding. In the past one year and a half, 21 was secretly collecting small chunks of funds from investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, and several other firms. The company's CEO and co-fonder Matthew Pauker also revealed eBay cofounder Jeff Skoll, PayPal cofounders Max Levchin and Peter Thiel and Expedia CEO Data Khosrowhahi as one of the 21 Inc.'s investors. However, the name of one investor that surprised the entire community was Qualcomm Ventures - a renowned....

San Francisco-based Bitcoin company Chain Inc. has clinched an investment of $30 million and the investors include financial heavyweights such as Visa Inc., Nasdaq Inc., Citi Ventures, Capital One Financial Corp., Fiserv Inc. and Orange SA. Chain Inc. works with banks and other financial firms and claims that its "solutions enable institutions to design, deploy and operate blockchain networks that can power any type of asset in any market." As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the company has also said that the former American Express Co. CEO and venture capitalist Jim Robinson III has....

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